Notable Women in Healthcare 2019

Now in its second year, Crain’s Notable Women in Health Care celebrates an industry uniquely shaped by women. They collectively have an outsize influence both as health care consumers and workers. Women make 80% of health care buying decisions and represent 65% of the health care workforce. And yet women make up only 30% of the health care industry’s C-suite teams and 13% of its CEOs, according to a recent national survey by consulting firm Oliver Wyman.

Here in New York, with its world-class hospital systems, research institutions and medical schools, our 100 honorees are committed to moving us toward gender equity in health care.

NYU Langone Health’s executive leadership is 46% female, with six women among its team of 13. At New York–Presbyterian, there are 14 women among 33 senior leaders, or 42.4%. Montefiore Health System has four women among its 14 top executives. Northwell Health’s 40-member senior leadership team is 22.5% female, with nine women. Among the 17 members of Weill Cornell Medicine’s senior leadership team, three are women. We look forward to seeing these ratios rise.

Our honorees include exceptional clinical and administrative leaders, entrepreneurs, health care providers, physicians and scientists. We asked them to tell us about their experiences at the top and share thoughts on how to achieve gender equity in New York’s health care industry.

Among those who answered is Angela Hwang, a member of Pfizer’s executive team, group president of the Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group and a mom to two teenagers.

“It’s about balancing personal and professional life and making choices,” Hwang said. “Different women will have different challenges, but one underlying theme is the need to implement workforce policies that address the challenges faced by all women.”

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